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Fitter Stoke
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 16 July 2022 CE
Jul 17, 2022, 13:57
Those Beach Boys (and related) titles aside, I know and like all of your listed albums. I bought ‘Below The Belt’ on its release, having been impressed with its opening track ‘Shooting Star’ when Alan Freeman (who else) played it on his Saturday show. I still think it’s easily the best track on an otherwise good, not great, album. Of course, since then I’ve come to know Patto and what a superior band they were in every respect. Note also that Boxer’s bassist was the late Keith Ellis, formerly of VdGG, thus establishing a direct link with that wonderful Peter Hammill LP you bought at the same time!

I played ‘Rock Of The Westies’ a few months ago for the first time in years and was bowled over by it: so much energy and fun goes on in its grooves. It’s a lesser remembered reminder of how productive Elton was in the seventies. I’m gonna play it again now!

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